In <200904140953.49845.rschulz@sonic.net>, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday April 14 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
That's not a MS-ism. That's a core open-source philosophy: "Release early; release often.".
Not really.
The injunction to "release early, release often" is a core principle of _Agile Development_.
Not originally. In 1997, ESR--who basically coined the term open-source--used "Release Early, Release Often" as the title on one chapter of his "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". The paper itself admits that not all open-source projects use this philosophy. However, ESR's use and the spread of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" made the phrase itself a mantra of many open-source projects. "Agile Development" was around before then, possibly going all they way back to 1974. However, it did not have signification mindshare until with Agile Manifesto was published in 2001.
For example, I don't think Linux kernel releases (final, non-development / non-testing releases) are done on a release early, release often basis.
I'm not sure why you feel the need to exclude development / testing releases. Still, between 2.6.19 and 2.6.20, there were 7 ".20-rc?" versions, 6 ".19.?" versions, and only 72 days. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/